Friends of the Library/Emeritus Book Group Schedule


Meeting time - second Thursday, 4:30-6:00 PM


See our Emeritus Calendar for Friends of the Library and Book Club meeting times.

We are now choosing books only a few months in advance, rather than for the whole year. Please join in the selection process by reviewing the Reading Suggestions.


2011

January 13: Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann. Harper Collins (2009)

February 10: The Tenth Parallel. Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, by Eliza Griswold. Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2010)

March 10: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. Stories, by Yiyun Li. Random House (2010)




2010 (See related pages in the sidebar at left for discussions and reviews.)

Jan. 14: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed. Norton, 2008

Feb. 11: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz. Riverhead, 2007.

Mar. 11: White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, by Brenda Wineapple. Random House, 2008

Apr. 8: Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War. Vintage Books, 1997

May 13: The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War
On American Ideals, by Jane Mayer. Random House, 2008

June 10: All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy. Vintage, 1993

July 8: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday, 2007

August 12: American Rust, by Philipp Meyer. Speigel and Grau, 2009

Sept. 9: Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, by Walter Kirn. Doubleday 2009

Oct. 14: The White Tiger, by Aravind Adega. The Free Press, 2008

Nov. 11: The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright. Little Brown, 2009

December: No meeting




2009
Sept. 10: The Post American World, by Fareed Zakaria. WW Norton, 2008* Discussion and video interview

Oct. 8: The Straight Man, by Richard Russo. Random/Vintage, 1998 Russo quotes, many on the proces of writing fiction

Nov. 12: Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3, by Annie Proulx. Scribner, 2008 * Discussion and links to reviews

December: No Meeting